Deploy your dashboards
You have dashboard JSON from the Foundation SDK. Next you need that JSON to show up as a live dashboard in Grafana. Grafana supports several ways to do that. The right choice depends on the workflow your team already uses.
Ways to get JSON into Grafana
| Method | How it works | Use it for | Considerations |
|---|
| Git Sync | Store dashboard JSON in a Git repository; Grafana keeps that path synchronized with your instance | Git-native teams that want the repo as the source of truth | You configure sync and auth in Grafana; changes follow Git and sync settings |
| Terraform | Define dashboards with the Grafana Terraform provider and run plan/apply | Teams that already manage infrastructure with Terraform | Another tool and state workflow if you don’t already use it |
| Grafana API | Send HTTP requests to Grafana yourself; other methods build on this | Full custom control in your own scripts | More code to write and maintain |
This journey covers Git Sync. You’ll commit SDK-generated JSON to Git and let Grafana synchronize it. To deploy that same SDK JSON with Terraform instead, take the Terraform version of this journey.
Dashboards as Code with the Foundation SDK and Terraform